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Rugby World Cup 2011

Social Organization / Place and Environment Level 2

Achievement Objectives
Students will demonstrate knowledge and understandings of:

how leadership of groups is acquired and exercised;

Students could demonstrate such knowledge and understandings when they:
- identify leaders in rugby
- describe ways people can become leaders (e.g., through skills, appointment, volunteering);
- explain how different styles of leadership affect members of groups;
- describe ways leaders seek to resolve differences within and between groups.
how and why people make and implement rules and laws.

Students could demonstrate such knowledge and understandings when they:
- explain why groups have rules in rugby
- describe processes that groups use to make rules and laws (e.g., discussion and agreement, meetings, rugby union);

give examples of what happens when rules and laws are broken.

Place and Environment

Students will demonstrate knowledge and understandings of:

how different groups view and use places and the environment;
Students could demonstrate such knowledge and understandings when they:
- give examples of different; views on professional Rugby and amateur rugby
- Give examples of different ways in which people use the same places and environments.
how and why people express a sense of belonging to particular places and environments.

Students could demonstrate such knowledge and understandings when they:
- identify features of places that reflect people’s relationships to the places Team names logos

Processes

Inquiry
Achievement Objective
Students will demonstrate skills as they:

collect, process, and communicate information about the rugby world cup.

Within these levels, students will:
- frame questions to focus an inquiry; On a world cup country
- collect and record information from a range of sources;
- process information using appropriate conventions;
- communicate findings using conventions appropriate to the mode of communication.

Values Exploration
Achievement Objective
Students will demonstrate skills as they:

Explore and analyse values of different rugby countries.

Within these levels, students could:
- explain why people hold different values positions;
- explain the possible consequences of some different values positions;
- explain some ways in which groups accept or resolve differences related to values positions.

Assessment
Students brainstorm what they think would make a good leader.
Students are able to write a research question and make notes .

Learning Activities

Social Studies

Research a world Cup country: action research
Research a famous Rugby captain and analysis what makes these people good leaders .
Research the rules of rugby: Play a game.
Identify the Professional teams in rugby and

Language

Oral Make a commentary/
Written Passport application/ Newspaper study/Scavenger hunt/ grammar /Synonym/Haiku/opinion/Rugby report/Adjectives/Tense/punctuation/Antonyms/closed/proof reading cartoons
Visual Adverts/Mascots/Logos/Picture acts
Drama: rugby role play

View a game and write up a report and a commentary.